Abstract: A film cassette assembly has a cassette and a roll of film wound on a spool and contained in the cassette. When the spool is rotated, the roll of film is rotated together with it in order to feed a film leader out of the cassette through a film passage mouth. To rotate the spool and the roll of film together, the film cassette assembly presses an axial end portion of the outermost periphery of the roll of film or presses the film's circumferential peripheral surface. Where the axial end portion of the outermost periphery of the roll of film is to be pressed, at least one of a pair of flanges of the spool is elastically deformed to clamp both axial side edges of the outermost periphery of the roll of film. Where the circumferential surface of the outermost periphery of the roll of film is to be pressed, a projection and an elastic member are provided within the cassette.

Abstract: A photographic film cassette has a cassette shell and a spool of film contained rotatably therein. The photographic film is completely contained in the cassette shell before use. The photographic film cassette is contained in a box-shaped transparent P case. The P case is then externally packaged. The outer is an opaque card arranged face to face with the passage mouth of the cassette and shrink wrap for retaining the P case on the card. In the improved cassette, the cassette shell is constituted of first and second shell halves respectively formed from resin. In manufacturing the cassette, indication representing general information is printed onto the first shell half. The spool with the photographic film is arranged between the shell halves. The shell halves are attached together while keeping the spool rotatable. Subsequently, the label, having indication representing information related to a particular type of the photographic film, is attached to the cassette.

Abstract: Light-trapping members are cut out of a ribbon consisting of a base fabric and piles. The piles of the ribbon are pressed against the peripheral surface of a thermal drum to be inclined in the width direction after the ribbon is passed through and twisted by a twister disposed close to the thermal drum. The light-trapping members with inclined piles are attached to a film passage mouth of a self-advancing-type photographic film cassette with the inclination of the piles directed to the outside of the film passage mouth, so that the leading end of a photographic film can be advanced smoothly by rotation of a spool through the light-trapping members to the outside of the cassette.

Abstract: A photographic film cassette has two light trapping fabric pieces having pile threads, attached to respective upper and lower surfaces of the film passageway for trapping light. A ridge is formed on an inner surface of the cassette body for preventing the film from loosening. A ridge extended portion extends from the ridge toward the film passage mouth along the upper surface. The inclined portions are formed on both inner surfaces of the film passageway. The film leader is guided so as to be substantially between both fabric pieces during a film advance. A mechanism also is provided for shielding light in the passage through gaps between bottoms of the pile threads. In a further preferred embodiment, a recess is formed on the upper surface so that the lower surface is arranged in a position that is shifted upwardly by an amount corresponding to a depth of the recess, which reduces an angle at which light impinges on the coiled film.

Abstract: A photographic film cassette has a spool with photographic film wound thereon. A pair of velvet ribbons is attached to inside faces of a passageway of the cassette shell so as to prevent light from entering the cassette shell through the passageway. Rotation of the spool in an unwinding direction causes a leader of the photographic film to advance outward from the passageway between the pair of ribbons. The ribbons are of warp pile fabric woven from warp threads, weft threads and warp pile threads. The ribbons are woven in a structure such that the weft threads are intersected by the warp threads in plain weave, and that warp pile threads are pressed between the warp threads to slang in the direction of the weft threads. The ribbons are oriented so as to slant the pile threads toward an outside of the cassette shell. In a preferred embodiment, a light-trapping ribbon web is woven such that it has a width corresponding to a width of the inside faces of the passageway for attaching ribbons.

Abstract: Light shielding cloths excellent in light-shielding ability, and film drawing resistance are obtained by increasing the pile yarn density in accordance with a special formula, by passing pile yarns between the needle loop and the sinker loop of the ground fabric or by using a combination of regular yarn and special yarn. The contamination of the film by the thermobleeding of the dye is prevented by using a particular dye. The generation of static marks is also prevented by treating the light-shielding cloth comprising synthetic fiber with a special antistatic agent or treatment.

Abstract: A film cassette assembly has a cassette and a roll of film wound on a spool and contained in the cassette. When the spool is rotated, the roll of film is rotated together with it in order to feed a film leader out of the cassette through a film passage mouth. To rotate the spool and the roll of film together, the film cassette assembly presses an axial end portion of the outermost periphery of the roll of film or presses the film's circumferential peripheral surface. Where the axial end portion of the outermost periphery of the roll of film is to be pressed, at least one of a pair of flanges of the spool is elastically deformed to clamp both axial side edges of the outermost periphery of the roll of film. Where the circumferential surface of the outermost periphery of the roll of film is to be pressed, a projection and an elastic member are provided within the cassette.

Abstract: A pair of teremps of a knitted structure are bonded to a blank of a shell plate of a film cartridge. A pair of teremps in continuous lengths is conveyed in the longitudinal direction thereof with the piled side of each of the teremps kept in contact with a locator member. The teremps in continuous lengths are bonded to opposite side edges of the blank and then cut to conform to the blank. Before they are brought into contact with the locator members, the teremps in continuous lengths are subjected to a process in which the pile is substantially uniformly oriented rearward at an angle with respect to the direction in which the teremps are conveyed.

Abstract: A photographic film cassette containing of a photographic film whose leading end is initially positioned in a cassette shell and advanced through a film passageway out of the cassette shell by rotation of a spool. Light-trapping members are attached to upper and lower surfaces of the film passageway. After assembling the photographic film cassette, and before loading it into a camera, the leading end is advanced through the film passageway out of the cassette shell and returned to an inside of the cassette shell so that tips of piles of the light-trapping members are arranged so as to push against each other with tips thereof inclined in a film moving direction. In a preferred embodiment, a sheet member is inserted into and drawn from a film passageway to arrange the piles so as to make them incline in a film advancing direction.

Abstract: A photographic film cassette has light-trapping members attached to a film passage mouth in order to close the film passage mouth. The inner end portions of the light-trapping members are spaced apart from each other so as to enable easy entrance of a leading end of a photographic film in between the light-trapping members. A frictional coefficient of the light-trapping member against the photographic film is 0.25 or less. The light-trapping member satisfies a following formula: 0.6 mm<T.sub.2 -T.sub.1 <4.0 mm, wherein T.sub.2 is the thickness of each light-trapping member under a load of 20 g/cm.sup.2 and T.sub.1 is the thickness of each light-trapping member under a load of 100 g/cm.sup.2.

Abstract: A film cassette is provided with a film passage mouth to which pile fabrics are attached for trapping light. Pile threads of the pile fabrics are inclined flexibly in the film advancement direction to reduce resistance against film advancement. The leader of the film is formed in a triangular shape such that the film leader end passes the pile fabrics while gradually increasing the contact area with the fabric, thereby reducing resistance against film advancement.

Abstract: In a photographic film cassette, light trapping fabric is provided on each of two inside surfaces of a film passage mouth which define a film passageway. Inner recesses, retracted from the inside surfaces, have the inner edges of the light trapping fabric attached thereto, with an adhesive agent enclosing the inner edges. In a preferred embodiment, tiny grooves are formed in the recesses to provide an increased attaching force, so that a considerable degree of attachment can be maintained. Further, the cassette has two shell halves which are joined together at respective edges. A projection is formed at a first one of those edges. The second edge has a contact projection thereon, for fitting in an inside recess of the first edge. Also, a crooked portion is formed along the juncture of the respective edges. As a result, no light will come through the spacing beside the film. A film leader is advanced through the film passageway by rotating the spool to an outside of the film passage mouth.

Abstract: A self-advancing film cassette is provided with an auxiliary rotation transmittance structure for reliably transmitting rotation of a spool to the inner turns of a roll of film in order to prevent reverse rotation of the film caused by loosening of the inner turns of the roll of film or inferior bending rigidity. According to one preferred embodiment, a step portion for pushing the bending line of a film trailer is formed on a slit, permitting the end of the film trailer to be inserted therein. In another preferred embodiment, a spool is provided with a resilient member or flap member for urging the inner turns of the roll of film toward its outer turns. The film trailer has increased bending rigidity by having an embossing treatment, applied thereto, or by attaching a skirt thereto.

Abstract: A cassette shell of a photographic film cassette is made of resin. A photographic film is wound on a spool rotatably contained in the cassette shell. A port portion has a passageway for passing the film therethrough toward the outside of the cassette shell. A plush within the passageway for trapping light coming through the passageway is provided in such a manner so as to be removable from the cassette shell when the cassette shell is subjected to a process for reuse thereof. In one embodiment, the port portion is removably attached to the cassette shell. In another embodiment, the light trapping member is adhered to the portion with an adhesive agent soluble in a solvent in which the cassette shell is insoluble.

Abstract: In a film cassette, a spool having a roll of film wound on it is rotatable within a cassette body, but the film leader of this film does not protrude from the cassette body. The roll of film is held between a pair of flanges of the spool or the film roll is pressed by a projecting member and a resilient member disposed on the inner wall of the cassette body. Thus the roll of film, when the spool is rotated, is also rotated together with it. As a result, the film leader is fed outside the cassette. In order to prevent light from entering the cassette from the film withdrawing slot, the film withdrawing slot is closed by a cover member and a mask. Also, by virture of a provision of a film passage extending within the cassette in a curved state or by mounting a projecting portion on the film leader, the interior of the cassette is masked.

Abstract: A photographic film cartridge typically including a cartidge case having a longitudinal axis, opposite end walls and a film outlet for feeding the film out; a spool extending substantially coaxially with respect to the cartridge case and carried at the opposite end portions by the opposite end walls of the cartridge case for rotation about the longitudinal axis of the spool, the spool being capable of being rotated from outside of the cartridge case; a film wound into a roll on the spool with an end of the film connected with the spool; a slidable cover provided on the cartridge case for slidably moving along a surface of the cartridge case toward the direction inclined to the film feeding direction to slide toward the direction to open and shut the film outlet, and further including device for keeping the film tightly wound into a roll on the spool, whereby the tip end of the film can be fed out hrough the film outlet by rotating the spool in the direction opposite to the film winding direction.

Abstract: A cartridge for photographic photosensitive materials has the internal volume of not more than 0.07.times.cm.sup.3 (.times. is a surface area of the photosensitive layer of the photographic photosensitive material contained in it), and a cartridge body, a spool and a photographic film. The cartridge body is made of a plastic material having a sulfur content of not more than 2.5 .mu.g/g, and made of a carbon black produced from petroleum material at more than 1300.degree. C. or produced from natural gas or vegetable oil.

Abstract: A self-processing photographic film unit has a trap member using a nonwoven cloth in order to catch surplus processing solution. This nonwoven cloth is provided with a polymer having carboxyl groups, and a hardening agent for hardening the polymer in order to prevent leakage and change of color to a frame portion of an image forming plane. A nonwoven cloth according to another embodiment includes a fiber of duplex structure which comprises an external layer of a hydrophilic cross linkage polymer and an internal layer of an acrylonitrile type polymer. A further embodiment includes a nonwoven cloth having dimensions of individual gaps or density which are changed stepwise or continuously. This nonwoven cloth is stored in the trap section so that a portion having a small density or large individual gaps is disposed on the inlet side.